Fishing at Otter Creek Reservoir

Sue and I had a fun filled day of fishing at Otter Creek Reservoir with our good friends, Terry & Dana Kelvington. The day began at abut 8:30am and ended around 10pm. Sue and I had not fished for years. We all caught plenty of fish (Rainbow Trout), and most of them were really nice size 2 1/2 to 3 lbs. with a couple at 1 lb. We stopped for breakfast on the way up (2 1/2 hour drive from St. George) at a quaint little restaurant in Circleville, UT. Otter Creek is close to Richfield off of Hwy 89. The weather was beautiful the whole day with the temperature in the mid 50's. I'm sure that we will do this again in the spring.

Beautiful Fall Weekend

Sue and I had a really busy and fun weekend. On Friday night we went out with our complete Bishopric for dinner. It really was a great time spent together. Our Bishop is like the Ward Grandpa...everybody just loves him.

On Saturday morning we decided to go to Snow Canyon ( a Utah State park with beautiful red rock vistas and lots of volcanic lava) and do a 6 mile hike. It was such a beautiful day, about 72, which around here is as perfect as it gets. Both of us did real good but we were feeling it by the end of the hike, especially when the return trip was all severely and constantly uphill. Enjoy some of the great photos we took of the perfect day.

We ended the day by going back to Tuachan to see the "BYU Young Ambassadors" which is a song & dance troupe made up of students from Brigham Young University. They performed to music from the 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's, 90's, and the present. They were very entertaining if not spectacular.

Spooktacular Family Fun

Grandkids are where it's at. We love them all and miss those that do not live close to us.

Chris and Alicia stopped by the house last night to show us Elonna and Champ's Halloween costumes. Ruh Ro... Champ was Scooby Dooby Do, and Elonna was Sleepover Hanna Montana... a real original. They were so doggone (pun intended) cute.

Alison and the boys stopped over to see us too. Corbin is the little pumpkin, Andy is Darth Vader, and Baxston is Spiderman.

After a fun night at the Ward's "truck or treat", we stopped by to visit Jimmy & Hollie. As usual, they had a great party going on with their annual Pirate theme. Gracie was (is) a princess, and Preston was a mini pirate.

We didn't get to see all of the grandkids, but we do have some pictures of them.

Kari and Will's family look so cute. Brinly was Wonderwoman, Payton was Ironman, Bronson was Spiderman, and Eli was a cute little monkey...hey, wait a minute he IS a cute little monkey. Kari and Will looked so good too

And of Course, Felipe and Tina's daughter Raquel was the cutest little pink 3-eyed monster we've ever seen.

We missed seeing those guys so much....Halloween, what a fun time of the year

What a great fun-filled night it was.

"Thriller" of a Weekend

We went to see the stage production, Thriller, at Tuachan Friday evening. It was awesome. Actors were in various Halloween make up and put together many ghoulish set to music. It was mostly modern and jazz dancing. It opened and closed with zombies dancing to Michael Jackson's Thriller. It really was extremely entertaining. We started the evening off by going out to the Gun Barrel Steak and Game restaurant.

Saturday was a work day for Sue as she had another "flu shootout" in Hurricane. She worked hard until mid afternoon. I was a able to go golfing with my son Jimmy and we had a blast. The rest of the weekend was pretty much laid back and relaxing.

Life is good!

Celebrating Sue's Birthday

All Sue wanted for her birthday was Dish TV's Center Ice package so she could get the Sabres games on TV. That was just too easy. She also received a nice leather jacket and a gift card to Kohls so she can go shopping for some fun fall/winter clothes. We spent the evening at Scaldoni's restaurant, which is a very nice high end restaurant. The food was good, not great, but the time spent with Sue was fabulous. The best part of Sue's birthday though was that she was able to talk to her girls....that really made her birthday special. All in all I think she had a great birthday.

As always, Sue looks terrific and easily looks 10-15 years younger than she is. It's no wonder she has 5 beautiful daughters.